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He married Miss Mae B. McMillen, of Walnut Grove. Mrs. Grabiel is an accomplished musician and a fine singer, and has been a great help to him in his work. To them three children have been born :- Paul Ruskin, March 6, 1890; Mary Estie, Sep- tember 26, 1891, died October 1, 1891, and Ruth Glyde, June 24, 1898.
REV. VIRGIL L. GRABIEL.
Virgil L. Grabiel, now pastor of the Presbyterian church at Kings, Illinois, is the son of Jacob Grabiel, a farmer living near Rushsylvania. Jacob G. moved to Bellefontaine in 1887. He had been an elder in the Presbyterian church at Rushsylvania ever since that church had been organized, and after moving to Belle- fontaine, he, and as many of his family as were with him, united here. In the family was Virgil L., who was 19 years of age. He attended High School one year.
In the fall of 1889 he entered school at Ada, Ohio, where he was graduated in 1891.
In April, 1892, he married Miss Hannah Myers, who belonged to his college class. The next September he entered McCormick Seminary in Chicago. After two years he took up missionary work in Northern Michigan, and continued it for over a year. While there he was ordained by the Lake Superior Presby- tery. Returning to McCormick Seminary he was graduated
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in 1896. Immediately he returned to Michigan, being called to a charge at Fair- grove, in Flint Presbytery, where he remained one year.
In May, 1897, a second. call from the church at Kings caused him to give up the work in Michigan, and to return to Illinois, where he is now located. To his family have been added one boy and one girl.
While attending Sun- day-school here his teacher was Mrs. Riddle, and to use his own words: "The mem- ory of her I cherish very much."
REV. JAMES B. M'CRACKEN.
REV. VIRGIL L. GRABIEL.
REV. JAMES B. MCCRACKEN.
James B. McCracken united with the First Presby- terian church by letter Janu- ary II, 1877. He had been doing lay preaching for sev- eral years at various points, especially at West Newton, Allen county, where a church was organized in the sum- mer of 1877, over which Mr. McCracken was ordained by the Presbytery of Lima. He did not live long to continue the work, dying at his home in Bellefontaine January 27, 1878, aged 70.
"He was much respect- ed by those who knew him. He entered the ministry in
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the Presbyterian church a year ago, when quite advanced in years, though he had been an earnest and consistent christian many years.
"He organized a church at Newton, Allen county, and was in- stalled its pastor. He was 70 years of age."
REV. JOHN MARQUIS.
John Marquis, son of James and Ann (Marquis) Marquis, was born in Washington county, Pa., March 5, 1809. He was educat- ed at Cannonsburg, Pa., and on November 5, 1829, mar- ried Mary, daughter of David Newell. He married, second, Elizabeth, daughter of James Robb, November 17, 1838, and third, Sarah J , daughter of Wm. Stewart.
He joined the Bellefon- taine Presbyterian church in 1831, and April 23, 1845, was licensed as a minister. In 1848, by the Presbytery of Miami, he was ordained as pastor and served in the Presbyterian churches of Centerville, Montgomery county, Ohio; Eaton, Preble county, Ohio; Henry, Mar- shall county, Illinois, and East Los Angeles, California, JOHN MARQUIS. where he died June 2Ist, 1890, in the 82nd year of his age. Mrs. Ann was also a member of this church.
His children, by his first marriage, were :- Alfred, Matilda J., Adeline E. and Clementine M. By his second marriage Auvilla N., John F,, Euthenia P., Dapscellia, Waldo and Augustus L.
REV. GARNET ADRIAN POLLOCK, D. D.
Garnet Adrian Pollock, son of Jolın and Elizabeth Pollock, was born near Cadiz, Ohio, June 8, 1834. The parents were Scotch-Irish,
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and were steadfast members of the Reformed Presbyterian church. They removed to Logan county and settled on a farm near West Liberty, Ohio.
Garnet wrought with his father and brothers on the farm, attending school in the winter season until he was sixteen years of age, when he entered the High School at West Liber- ty. Completing the course he entered Geneva College and remained there until the close of his Sophomore year, then entered Miami University, from which he was graduated in 1858. Mr. Pollock united with the First Presbyterian church of Bellefontaine, January 16, 1858, 011 certificate from Ox- ford.
His theological course was pursued at the Associate Reformed Seminary, Ox- ford, and the Western Theo- logical Seminary, Allegheny, Pa. He filled the Chair of REV. GARNET ADRAIN POLLOCK, D. D. Mathematics at Augusta Col- lege, Kentucky, and was afterward President of the Okane Male and Female Seminary at Shelbyville, Illinois. He was licensed by the Sidney Presbytery, and his first charge was Prairie Bird, Indiana, where he was or- dained in 1866 by the Wabash Presbytery. I11 1869 he took charge o" a mission church of 10 members at Effingham, Illinois, and re- mained eight years, leaving it with 170 members, a good house of worship and paying a good salary. He was pastor at Mendota, Illinois, for nearly thirteen years where substantial improvements were made.
In the spring of 1891 he organized a church at Elgin which now consists of 125 members, and has a house of worship and a parsonage valued at $15,000. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Miami University in 1896. He was
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Moderator of the Synod of Illinois in 1874, and has been five times a delegate to the General Assembly.
REV. ROBERT P. SHAW.
Robert P. Shaw, son of Rev. Joseph and Naomi Waite Shaw, was born in West Alexander, Washington county, Pa., May 27, 1844, and came with his parents to Bellefontaine in 1856.
He joined the United Presbyterian church of this city about 1860, and the Presbyterian church of Hopewell, Indiana, in 1852. On returning to Bellefontaine in 1864, the family became members of the Presbyterian church of this city; all save Robert, the subject of this sketch, who was then a stu- dent at Jefferson College, now Washington and Jeffer- son.
On graduation there- from in August, 1865, he re- turned to Bellefontaine and became a member of this congregation and a teacher in the Sabbath-school, hav- ing a class of young men. During the months from August, 1865, to April, 1866, Robert read enough of Blackstone under Judge West to convince himself that the law was not to his taste. He accepted the po- REV. ROBERT P. SHAW. sition of Principal of the Hopewell Academy for a year, after which he became a student of theology in Princeton Theological Seminary.
Spending his vacation in Bellefontaine, Robert did his first public preaching here and hereabouts under the friendly eye of Dr. Kalb. Thereafter he never visited Bellefontaine without hav- ing Dr. Kalb's kindly hands laid upon him, and being constrain- ed to preach to former schoolmates and friends.
Graduating from Princeton Seminary in 1870, Mr. Shaw went
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immediately to his first pastoral charge, the two churches of Cedar Grove and Churchtown, Lancaster county, Pa. Here, hav- ing been ordained by the Presbytery of Westminster, November 8, 1870, he remained until November 8, 1872, then he removed to Bedford, Indiana, where he was married to Mary C. Thornton; thence in January, 1874, to Saginaw, Michigan, where he was pas- tor of the First Presbyterian church until April, 1878. In 1879 he took charge of the Presbyterian church of Sturgis, Michigan, where he remained sixteen years. In June, 1895, he removed to Tacoma, Washington, and has since been in charge of the Second or Immanuel Presbyterian church. There Mr. Shaw has built his home wherein are gathered a family of one daughter and six sons.
REV. JOHN MCMILLAN STEVENSON.
John McMillan Stevenson was born in West Alexander, Pa., May 14, 1812. His father was Rev. Joseph Stevenson, at that time pastor of the Presbyterian church at that place. His mother was Sar- ah Marquis.
When he was thirteen years old the family moved to Bellefontaine, Ohio, then a new region, with forests to be felled and virgin soil to be broken. Converted in his late youth, the young man turned his thoughts to the gospel ministry. The begin- ning of his college education was secured at Miami Uni- versity, and was completed in Jefferson College, (now Washington and Jefferson ) REV. JOHN M'MILLAN STEVENSON, D. D. where he graduated in the class of 1836. He studied theology for a time in Lane Seminary, Dr. Lyman Beecher being then at the head of the faculty. Young Stevenson then became an instructor at Kenyon College, and later took charge of a Girls'
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Seminary at Athens, Ohio. After a service as Professor of Greek in the Ohio University, he was ordained to the ministry in 1842, and became pastor of the Presbyterian church at Troy, Ohio. In 1846 he resigned his pastorate to become District Secretary for the American Tract Society, having general care of the work in five states. His services here were highly valued, but after three years he returned to the pastorate, taking charge, in 1849, of the First Presbyterian church, New Albany, Indiana. He was the very suc- cessful and highly esteemed pastor of that church for about eight years. In 1857 he was called to become one of the corresponding secretaries of the American Tract Society in New York City, and in that work spent the remainder of his life. Upwards of forty years were thus given to the service of an institution which has been of large use in promoting evangelical religion among men in our own country and in foreign lands as well.
Dr. Stevenson was eighty years of age when he gave up active work in the society, and for four years more was Secretary Emeri- tus.
He passed from life on earth to the better life beyond August 22, 1895.
Dr. Stevenson was a genial and benevolent man whose control- ling purpose was to be of use to his fellow men. He easily made friends and won the respect and esteem of his associates. His piety was simple and genuine. His long life was full of usefulness, both in the main line which he followed and in many side paths where his energy and devotion found opportunity.
In his family. relations Dr. Stevenson was singularly happy. On October 10, 1837, he was united in marriage to Miss Cecilia H. Gillespie, at Carrolton, Ohio. Mrs. Stevenson was a true help to her husband, and, with firmer health in her later than in her younger years, was for a long time prominent and helpful in the Woman's Missionary Work of the Presbytery of Jersey City, with- in whose bounds, at Hawthorne, New Jersey, was the family home. Four children blessed their union. The two sons, William G. and Charles H., by a somewhat strange fatality, died within a few months of each other and within the year succeeding their parents' golden wedding anniversary in 1887, the first time that death had entered that family. The two daughters, with their mother, survive. The elder daughter, Saralı C., is the wife of Rev. Oliver A. Kingsbury, for a number of years editor of the Illustrated
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Christian Weekly and other periodicals of the American Tract So- ciety, now pastor of the Presbyterian church, New Hartford, New York, The younger daughter, Rosa A., is the wife of the Rev. Dr. Francis L. Patton, President of Princeton University.
REV. JOSEPH H. STEVENSON, D. D.
Joseph H. Stevenson was the eldest son of Elder Thomas Mar- quis Stevenson, and the grandson of Rev. Joseph Stevenson, the First pastor of the Presbyterian church of Bellefontaine. He re- members being one of the regulars in Elder J. D. Camp- bell's class of little boys in the first Sunday-school taught in the old square brick church on South Main street, probably the first Sun- day-school taught in Belle- fontaine.
He united with the church at 18 years of age, under the ministry of Rev. George A. Gregg, and be- lieves he is the first son of this church born, baptized and converted in it, to enter the ministry.
After graduating at Mi- ami University, he taught some years as Principal of Greenfield Academy, at REV. JOSEPH H. STEVENSON, D. D. Greenfield, Indiana. He studied theology at the Western Theological Seminary, Pittsburg, Pa., and was licensed by the Presbytery of Sidney, sitting in the little brick church on North Main street, in April, 1863. After serving in the pastorate for 20 years in Western Pennsylvania, he has been for the last 16 years a pastor in Illinois. He has been several times a Commissioner to the General Assembly; was honor- ed with the Moderator's chair by the Synod of Illinois in 1896, and with the degree of Doctor of Divinity by his alma mater in 1889. His present address is Golconda, Illinois.
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REV. JAMES EDWARD STEVENSON,
James Edward Stevenson, son of James Edgar and Hannah Moore (Hover) Stevenson, was born here November 24, 1854. He united with this church March 4, 1876, and joined the Presbyterian church in Ray- more, Missouri, in the spring of 1877. He has been Sup- erintendent of the Sunday- school continually since 1884. For 15 years he has spent a part of each winter as a singing evangelist in the weak churches of Kan- sas City Presbytery.
REV. JAMES EDWARD STEVENSON.
In April, 1894, he was elected Chairman of the Presbyterial Committee of Publication and Sunday- school Work in Kansas City Presbytery, and in 1898 he was elected to the same po- sition in the Synod of Mis- souri.
At the spring meeting of the Kansas City Presbytery of 1899, he was licensed as a local evangelist, and since January Ist, 1899, he has been supply- ing the church at Raymore, Missouri.
REV. ROBERT SCOTT STEVENSON.
Robert Scott Stevenson, son of Joseph and Margaret Ann (Kerr) Stevenson, Bellefontaine, Ohio, was born January 15, 1859. In the spring of 1874 he entered the grammar school, Cambridge City, Indiana, where he continued his studies until graduation from the High School, 1879. In the fall he entered the university, Bloomington, Indiana, from which he graduated in 1883. The first year of his theological course was spent in Princeton, New Jersey, the second and third in McCormick, Chicago, where he graduated, 1886. Mr. Stevenson was licensed to preach in the spring of 1885, by the Bellefontaine Presbytery, and ordained by the
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same Presbytery in April 1886.
In April, 1886, he mar- ried a college class-mate, Kate B. Hoover, Blooming- ton, Indiana, who was born February 25th, 1863. His first pastorate was in Madi- son, South Dakota, where in three and a half prosperous years a manse was built, and the church much in- creased in strength. The climate was severe, and for health's sake it became nec- essary to seek a more genial clime. Beginning with Feb- ruary, 1890, three profitable years were spent in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, the de- lightful all-year-round re-
MARY ELIZABETH STEVENSON.
REV. ROBERT SCOTT STEVENSON.
sort of the Ozark mountains. In February, 1893, the pres- ent pastorate, Carmi, Illi- nois, began, and has con- tinued with increasing suc- cess.
MARY ELIZABETH STEVENSON.
Mary Elizabeth Steven- son, (Lizzie) daughter of Elder T. M. Stevenson, unit- ed with the church during the great revival in which the pastor, Rev. E. P. Raff- ensperger, was assisted by Dr. James H. Brookes.
At the close of the war she gave up teaching in the North, and devoted her life
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to the Freedmen. Since 1867 she has spent 28 years in teaching and missionary work, chiefly in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Ander- sonville and Atlanta, Georgia, spending 26 years in the latter city. Her present address is Storrs, Connecticut.
SUSANNA STEVENSON.
Susanna Stevenson, (Sue) daughter of Elder T. M. Stevenson, went South at the close of the war as a missionary teacher among the Freedmen, and continued in the work, with some interrup- tions, for 13 years.
Her first school, at Knoxville, Tennessee, was broken np by the "Ku-Klux-Klan." She was one of the teachers in the open- ing years of Fiske School, now Fiske University, at Nashville, Tennessee. For twenty years she has been a teacher in the public schools of Topeka, Kansas.
MRS. JENNIE STEVENSON-KOONS.
MRS. JENNIE STEVENSON-KOONS AND SON.
Hannah Jane Stevenson, (Jennie) sister of Sue and Lizzie, was also a missionary teacher among the Freedmen. During the 17
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years she continued in the work, more than 3000 different pupils came under her instruction. For the last 17 years slie has been the wife of B. F. Koons, President of Storrs College, Storrs, Connecticut.
LUCINDA A. STEVENSON.
MISS EMMA SILVER.
MRS. JOSIE DOUGLASS.
Lucinda Ann Stevenson, was the first, perhaps the only inem- ber of the church married in the little brick building at the head of Main street. She was not like her three sisters, a missionary, but her two daughters, Miss Emma Silver and Mrs. Josie Douglass, are missionaries of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, at Shanghai, China.
MRS. DORA MARTIN TAYLOR.
Mrs. Dora Martin Taylor was born near Bellefontaine, Olio, and brought up in the Presbyterian faith and teachings.
She graduated from the Bellefontaine High School and after- wards from Park College, Missouri.
July 25, 1888, she married Rev. Hugh Taylor and sailed for
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Lakaun Laos, in Northern Siam, where they have continued to labor ever since under the Presbyterian Board.
MRS. DORA MARTIN TAYLOR.
MARTHA RACHEL WYLIE.
Martha Rachel Wylie, daughter of Rev. Preston H. and Mary (George) Wylie, was born December 14, 1846, in Muskingum county, Ohio, in the vicinity of 'Zanesville. She attended the common school for the most part in Rushsylvania, and graduated in her college course in Geneva College, at Northwood, in the year 1875. In the same year she was appointed to go to the Syrian Mission, of the Reformed Presbyterian church, and left home to go to Latakia, where our mission was located about the middle of August, 1875. She has now been nearly 24 years engaged in mis- sion work. During that time she has been home from the mission twice; once about four years after she first went out, for the pur- pose of accompanying a lady home whose mind was not able to bear the weight of missionary work; then again about eight years ago. That time she spent about a year in the home land, and travelled extensively through the country, lecturing on the subject of
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missions. She has been employed a good deal of the time teach- ing, also visiting as a missionary among the families of the natives as she is peculiarly qualified for that part of the work.
Before going to the mission she taught several terms of com- mon school in Bellefontaine and vicinity. She was a regular at-
MARTHA RACHEL WYLIE.
tendant of this church, in Mr. Robert Lamb's Sunday-school class, and later a teacher in our Sunday-school. She also attended sev- eral terms of the Institute that was held in Bellefontaine, and con- ducted under the management of Rev. Mr. Williamson.
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OFFICERS OF THE SUNDAY- SCHOOL.
BY JOHN E. WEST.
"The Sabbath-school is the church in her organized capacity, teaching and studying the Word of God."
HE officers of the First Presbyterian Sunday-school of Belle- fontaine, so far as they can now be ascertained, have been and are the following :-
Bennett, Ezra, superintendent, 1875; assistant superintendent, 1874. See sketch.
Bennett, J. Q. A., secretary, 1886,
Buchanan, S. A., superintendent, 1894; assistant superintend- ent, 1889-90-92-93-99. See sketch.
Bradfute, J. A., assistant superintendent, 1899-00.
Collins, Murpha, assistant superintendent, 1898.
Campbell, J. D., superintendent, 1850. See sketch.
Campbell J. Q. A., superintendent 1881-82-83-84; assistant superintendent, 1871-91. See sketch.
Campbell, Claire, pianist, 1894 to 1897.
Chalfant, R. W., assistant superintendent, 1898-99.
Dorwin, Philo, chorister prior to 1862; superintendent about 1855-56. See sketch.
Chalfant, Mrs. Margaret, assistant superintendent 1889 to 1897. Durkee, Eben, superintendent prior to 1867 to 1874. See sketch. Davies, Rev. G. E., pastor, 1899-00.
Davis, J. G., assistant superintendent, 1895-96-97.
Emery, Jennie, secretary, 1898-99-00.
Fromme, W. F., librarian, 1881-82; treasurer, 1885-86-87-88. Faris, W. D., superintendent home department, 1900.
Fulton, A., superintendent, 1874. See sketch. Galbreath, J. M., secretary, 1870-76.
Hoover, Wm., assistant superintendent, 1878.
Jordan, Clara, secretary, 1889-90. Kalb, Dr. G. L., pastor, 1863 to 1899; superintendent 1867. Kalb, G. B., librarian, 1880.
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Keller, R. B., assistant superintendent, 1900, See sketch.
Kennedy, John, treasurer, 1891-92.
Kerr, J. M , secretary, 1881; treasurer 1882; librarian, 1885 to 1891; assistant librarian, 1892.
Kerr, H. S., treasurer, 1889.
Lemen, May, secretary, 1891-92,
Leonard, Frank, assistant secretary and librarian, 1900.
Marmon, L. H., treasurer, 1878-79; secretary, 1883.
McColloch, Wm., superintendent, 1871; assistant superintend- ent, 1877. Superintendent or assistant most of the time from 1854 to 1868. See sketch.
McColloch, R. P., secretary, 1878-79-80.
McCracken, Minnie, secretary, 1894-95-96-97; assistant secre- tary and librarian, 1899-00.
McIlvaine, J. A., superintendent prior to 1874. See sketch. Mclaughlin, Charles, treasurer and secretary, 1862-67.
Mclaughlin, J. D., superintendent, 1879-80-88; assistant sup- erintendent, 1876-84-85-86. See sketch.
McCracken, Frank G., treasurer, 1899-00; assistant librarian, 1895-98.
McLaughlin, Robert, librarian, 1883.
Mclaughlin, C. A., librarian, 1891.
McKee, W. L., librarian, 1892 to 1900.
McMillen, Prima, assistant pianist, 1898-99-00.
Miller, David J., superintendent, 1862-63-64-66-76-77; assistant superintendent 1880 to 1883. See sketch.
Miller, H. R., treasurer, 1881; secretary 1882.
Niven, J. B., librarian, 1878; secretary, 1887; assistant secre- tary, 1886.
Patterson, Robert, superintendent prior to 1860. See sketch.
Patterson, Edward, librarian, 1874 to 1877.
Patterson, E. W., treasurer, 1880-83-84.
Pettit, Andrew, secretary, 1877.
Riddle, J. M., treasurer, 1876-77.
Riddle, W. W., treasurer, 1893 to 1898.
Ridgeway, Arthur, cornetist, 1894.
Robb, Joshua, first superintendent. See sketch.
Shaw, Joseph, superintendent prior to 1874. See sketch. Stevenson, Joseph, superintendent prior to 1860. See sketch. Stevenson, Pogue, superintendent prior to 1874. See sketch.
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Stevenson, G. M., superintendent, 1885-86-87; assistant super- intendent. See sketch.
St. John, R. H., superintendent, 1872. See sketch.
Taylor, T. O., assistant superintendent, 1887.
Thompson, Mable, secretary, 1893.
Turner, Mrs. Anna, pianist, 1898-99-00.
Wallace, J. P., superintendent. 1878. See sketch.
West, J. E., superintendent, 1889 to 1893, 1895 to 1900; assist- ant superintendent, 1888-94. See sketch.
Wood, R. B., assistant superintendent home department, 1900.
DR. ABRAHAM FULTON.
Abrahanı Fulton, son of Benjamin and Margaret Fulton, was born about 1814, at Can- nonsburg, Pa. He was rais- ed in Stark county and Sid- ney, Ohio; educated at Ohio Medical College. He prac- ticed medicine in Sidney, West Liberty, Bellefontaine and Rushsylvania.
Dr. Fulton united with this church, May 2, 1866, by letter. He was a very active and prominent man in this church, and a Superintend- ent of our Sunday-school.
He died here December 14, 1874.
He married Lucretia P., daughter of William H. and Jane Huntington, of Zanes- ville, Ohio. See personal sketch, "Missionaries."
DR. ABRAHAM FULTON.
REV. JOSEPH SHAW.
The Rev. Joseph Shaw, who died in Bellefontaine December IIth, 1875, aged 58 years and 4 months, was born in Kentucky, August IIth, 1817. In early years he was brought by his parents to Brown county, Ohio, where he grew up. Educated for the
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ministry in the Associate Presbyterian church, he graduated at Franklin College, New Athens, Ohio,-where he studied theology is not known to the writer of this ;- but at the age of 22 he was settled as pastor at West Alexander, Pa., where he served in a fruitful ministry 12 years. In 1839 he married Miss Naomi Waite, of Adams county, Ohio. On account of throat disease he gave up for a time the reg- ular work of the ministry after his first pastorate, and gave himself to teaching. For three years, 1852-55, he taught at Georgetown, Ohio. In 1855 he first came to Belle- fontaine as pastor of the As- sociate church, and preached and taught 'till 1859. From 1859 to 1860 he was Superin- tendent of the public schools in Sidney, Ohio. From 1861 for three years, he was Principal of Hope- well Academy, near Frank- lin, Indiana In the mean- time he had entered the REV. JOSEPH SHAW. Presbyterian church. Re- turning to Bellefontaine in 1864, he engaged in the drug business. In the summer of 1866 he supplied the pulpit of the First Presbyterian church during the illness of the pastor. In the fall of the same year, during the sick- ness of Mr. McKee, Superintendent of schools, he was put in his place, and on Mr. McKee's death was chosen his successor. He continued in this office six years, resigning in 1872. Leaving his family in Bellefontaine, he next spent two years in Maryland, teaching and preaching. Returning to his family after less than two years, he was called to his rest. Thus almost all of his adult life was devoted to the service of humanity in one or the other of two self-denying callings.
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